Republicans in Congress lied to the press on Friday and said they couldn’t comment on this because they hadn’t read it. It’s been 72 hours, but instead of asking those same Republicans if they now agree with the RNC resolution, reporters will intentionally forget this happened
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1489670105768370177
Republicans played this game for four years under Trump, repeatedly lying that they hadn’t seen his tweets, knowing that reporters asking them to comment on it wouldn’t give a shit about it the next day. All you have to do is go dark for 24 hours — a weekend is a gift
If you want to know how well this works, try to find what Mitch McConnell said on camera about Trump’s comments defending the Charlottesville nazis. You won’t find anything. McConnell — who was Senate majority leader — ducked the press and was *never* asked about it on camera
All McConnell did was avoid reporters for a few days, and then they stopped caring about it. He had a press conference a week or so after Trump defended the nazis and nobody asked him about it. The press does not consider something news if Republicans don’t want them to
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